For historical reasons, the project I co-author is on GitHub and we feel comfortable with its development processes. Thus we don't particularly want to migrate the whole project to Launchpad and using bazaar.
Being good internet-citizens we want to provide our open-source application in as many languages as possible - we stumbled across whilst searching that Launchpad could provide such a service.
The above link gives lots of description on this service, but I need a concise - very brief - how to:
- get our translation file (
package.pot) from GitHub into launchpad - brief description how to kick off our project to be translated.
- pull back from launchpad any translation files (
.po) that are generated by the wonderful translation team back into GitHub.
Does anybody have any practical experience do this that can help here?
Short answer: Yes, Launchpad can be used to manage translations for a project on github.
You can test launchpad's features with Launchpad Staging.
How things work?
- You push to github repo you set as source in step 2.
- Launchpad periodically checks, and updates the bzr repository.
- It then scans for any .pot or .po files, and adds them to the translations import queue.
- After a short while, the strings appear as 'Needs translation' and can be translated like anything else on launchpad.
What about pushing back to Github?
Sorry, but I don't think Launchpad is capable of that. However, LP can be set up to commit the translation files to a bzr branch on LP. It also allows you to manually download the translation files. These options can be found in the translation settings page.
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